Meaning not yet researched.
Donovan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 609 in 2025. Its best rank was #176 in 2003.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #176 in 2003; #496 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Donovan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#496 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2003, at #176.
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Donovan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 609 boys in 2025. Peak: #176 in 2003 · most boys in one year: 2,211 (2003).
In 2025, 609 US boys were named Donovan, making it the 496th most common boys’ name of the year, up 10 places from #506 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 604 boys named Donovan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #176, reached in 2003. That year also had the most boys given the name: 2,211. For comparison, it was #282 in 2015 and #721 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Donovan in 125 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1900 with 8 babies. In all, 61,904 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 19,389 babies named Donovan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 8,313 US boys were named Donovan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,160. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,805 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Donovan ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #315 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Donavan (8,305 babies since 1880), Donavon (5,349 babies since 1880), Donavin (2,343 babies since 1880) and Donaven (1,186 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Donivan, Donovin and Donovon are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Don, Donnie, Donny and Dony.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Donivan (1,181), Donovin (800), Donovon (660), Donavyn (557), Donnovan (553), Donoven (390), Donovyn (241), Donevan (174), Donnavan (152), Doniven (111), Donevin (81), Donivin (77), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 18 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 27 | #315 | #347 |
| California | 91 | #376 | #210 |
| Virginia | 20 | #392 | #285 |
| Connecticut | 7 | #398 | #208 |
| Kansas | 9 | #402 | #320 |
| Wisconsin | 12 | #418 | #320 |
| Washington | 17 | #429 | #265 |
| Utah | 10 | #444 | #230 |
| Ohio | 24 | #444 | #295 |
| Oregon | 8 | #448 | #280 |
| Idaho | 5 | #449 | #297 |
| Pennsylvania | 22 | #462 | #318 |
| Arizona | 15 | #469 | #325 |
| Colorado | 12 | #474 | #182 |
| Maryland | 10 | #481 | #271 |
| Massachusetts | 10 | #483 | #259 |
| Indiana | 14 | #492 | #286 |
| New York | 32 | #506 | #267 |
| Oklahoma | 8 | #518 | #590 |
| Illinois | 19 | #519 | #238 |
| Georgia | 20 | #523 | #270 |
| Minnesota | 10 | #528 | #439 |
| Nevada | 5 | #532 | #206 |
| Texas | 61 | #533 | #330 |
| Missouri | 11 | #533 | #352 |
| Florida | 31 | #558 | #228 |
| South Carolina | 8 | #564 | #284 |
| Michigan | 14 | #577 | #269 |
| Kentucky | 7 | #580 | #326 |
| Alabama | 8 | #590 | #329 |
| Tennessee | 12 | #602 | #406 |
| Louisiana | 7 | #611 | #338 |
| North Carolina | 13 | #688 | #298 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 609 | #496 |
| 2024 | — | — | 604 | #506 |
| 2023 | — | — | 652 | #468 |
| 2022 | — | — | 693 | #448 |
| 2021 | — | — | 727 | #425 |
| 2020 | — | — | 830 | #374 |
| 2019 | — | — | 947 | #352 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,347 | 1,030 | #325 |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,528 | 1,061 | #323 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,952 | 1,160 | #306 |
| 2015 | — | — | 1,304 | #282 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,270 | 1,271 | #284 |
| 2013 | — | — | 1,237 | #281 |
| 2012 | — | — | 1,272 | #276 |
| 2011 | — | — | 1,363 | #254 |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,763 | 1,644 | #217 |
| 2009 | — | — | 1,741 | #215 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,260 | 1,786 | #214 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,061 | 2,044 | #197 |
| 2006 | — | — | 1,967 | #198 |
| 2005 | — | — | 2,186 | #185 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,393 | 2,055 | #187 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,605 | 2,211 | #176 |
| 2002 | 7 | #12,578 | 1,964 | #190 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,421 | 1,657 | #211 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,177 | 1,718 | #206 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,977 | 1,632 | #210 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,156 | 1,542 | #210 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,245 | 1,449 | #213 |
| 1996 | — | — | 1,201 | #246 |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,977 | 1,077 | #261 |
| 1994 | — | — | 1,110 | #261 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,211 | 1,144 | #249 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,812 | 1,176 | #243 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,773 | 1,059 | #256 |
| 1990 | 6 | #11,809 | 849 | #300 |
| 1989 | — | — | 773 | #311 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,613 | 672 | #321 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,537 | 630 | #326 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,274 | 495 | #373 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,641 | 460 | #391 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,580 | 332 | #463 |
| 1983 | — | — | 278 | #504 |
| 1982 | — | — | 280 | #507 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,416 | 289 | #494 |
| 1980 | — | — | 344 | #449 |
| 1979 | — | — | 317 | #459 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,839 | 293 | #476 |
| 1977 | — | — | 324 | #442 |
| 1976 | — | — | 348 | #414 |
| 1975 | — | — | 338 | #425 |
| 1974 | — | — | 369 | #405 |
| 1973 | — | — | 378 | #400 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,527 | 403 | #392 |
| 1971 | — | — | 479 | #366 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,319 | 501 | #365 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,579 | 478 | #361 |
| 1968 | — | — | 283 | #455 |
| 1967 | — | — | 227 | #500 |
| 1966 | — | — | 175 | #573 |
| 1965 | — | — | 132 | #649 |
| 1964 | — | — | 119 | #710 |
| 1963 | — | — | 102 | #760 |
| 1962 | — | — | 103 | #754 |
| 1961 | — | — | 119 | #700 |
| 1960 | — | — | 75 | #878 |
| 1959 | — | — | 86 | #824 |
| 1958 | — | — | 74 | #878 |
| 1957 | — | — | 116 | #704 |
| 1956 | — | — | 88 | #793 |
| 1955 | — | — | 107 | #708 |
| 1954 | — | — | 76 | #829 |
| 1953 | — | — | 80 | #802 |
| 1952 | — | — | 73 | #824 |
| 1951 | — | — | 86 | #753 |
| 1950 | — | — | 90 | #721 |
| 1949 | — | — | 70 | #817 |
| 1948 | — | — | 78 | #768 |
| 1947 | — | — | 78 | #780 |
| 1946 | — | — | 83 | #717 |
| 1945 | — | — | 58 | #822 |
| 1944 | — | — | 63 | #790 |
| 1943 | — | — | 73 | #764 |
| 1942 | — | — | 65 | #798 |
| 1941 | — | — | 65 | #771 |
| 1940 | — | — | 84 | #660 |
| 1939 | — | — | 79 | #667 |
| 1938 | — | — | 91 | #624 |
| 1937 | — | — | 64 | #765 |
| 1936 | — | — | 79 | #662 |
| 1935 | — | — | 66 | #759 |
| 1934 | — | — | 109 | #567 |
| 1933 | — | — | 80 | #651 |
| 1932 | — | — | 107 | #575 |
| 1931 | — | — | 98 | #591 |
| 1930 | — | — | 93 | #637 |
| 1929 | — | — | 85 | #666 |
| 1928 | — | — | 93 | #649 |
| 1927 | — | — | 78 | #742 |
| 1926 | — | — | 66 | #814 |
| 1925 | — | — | 75 | #760 |
| 1924 | — | — | 65 | #851 |
| 1923 | — | — | 75 | #758 |
| 1922 | — | — | 52 | #980 |
| 1921 | — | — | 69 | #828 |
| 1920 | — | — | 61 | #879 |
| 1919 | — | — | 54 | #910 |
| 1918 | — | — | 46 | #988 |
| 1917 | — | — | 40 | #1,041 |
| 1916 | — | — | 49 | #898 |
| 1915 | — | — | 45 | #928 |
| 1914 | — | — | 35 | #937 |
| 1913 | — | — | 28 | #936 |
| 1912 | — | — | 26 | #884 |
| 1911 | — | — | 12 | #999 |
| 1909 | — | — | 8 | #1,102 |
| 1908 | — | — | 5 | #1,434 |
| 1907 | — | — | 9 | #941 |
| 1906 | — | — | 9 | #868 |
| 1905 | — | — | 12 | #712 |
| 1904 | — | — | 9 | #825 |
| 1903 | — | — | 9 | #808 |
| 1902 | — | — | 7 | #953 |
| 1901 | — | — | 7 | #879 |
| 1900 | — | — | 8 | #983 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).